Russian · For teachers
Every Russian printable, chapter by chapter
The whole Russian curriculum in one place, mapped to its 10 chapters and 329 lessons. Each lesson lists its downloads inline - worksheets with answer keys, infographics and PDFs - and each chapter's words fold out into their own per-word printable sets, so you can open and print any sheet for a class without hunting through the site.
Chapter 1 · Foundations
Chapter page →- How Russian worksIntroduction
The alphabet is an afternoon to learn and a week to read comfortably. The cases are months. Aspect is years. Here is what actually makes Russian hard, and it is not what you expect.
Hello in two registers, and good morning, good afternoon and good evening: the first words you can use on day one, before any grammar. Read them in Cyrillic or in Latin letters; nothing here needs typing.
How are you and how to answer, thank you, please and sorry, and the two goodbyes: до свидания for anyone, пока for friends.
Russian says me they call: Меня зовут Анна. Then put every phrase so far together in one short conversation.
- Cyrillic in an afternoonGrammar
Thirty-three letters sorted into the ones you know, the false friends that catch everyone, and the two that make no sound at all. You never have to type them here.
- Words 1-10Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 1-10
- Word Bubbles review sessionReview games
Pop the words you just met by matching each one to its meaning. A couple of rounds and the batch is yours.
- Words 11-20Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 11-20
Six endings, two patterns, and the verb to be disappears entirely: Я здесь is a whole sentence.
Хотеть, мочь and идти change the stem as they go: хочу but хотим, могу but можешь. Хотеть switches its endings in the plural too.
- Words 21-30Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 21-30
- Word Bubbles review sessionReview games
Pop the words you just met by matching each one to its meaning. A couple of rounds and the batch is yours.
- Words 31-40Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 31-40
- Word Bubbles review sessionReview games
Pop the words you just met by matching each one to its meaning. A couple of rounds and the batch is yours.
- И and а: two words for andGrammar
Russian has two words for and. И adds; а sets two things side by side (Мама дома, а папа на работе). Get them right and you sound like you know what you are doing.
- Но and или: but and orGrammar
Но is the real but, for the second half that goes against the first: Это трудно, но интересно. After not X, the but is still а. And или is or.
- Words 41-50Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 41-50
Eight short words. A table is он and a book is она, and a past-tense verb needs its pronoun.
Ты for one person you know well, вы for a stranger, anyone older, or more than one. And вы takes the plural verb, even to one person.
- Words 51-60Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 51-60
- Word Bubbles review sessionReview games
Pop the words you just met by matching each one to its meaning. A couple of rounds and the batch is yours.
- Words 61-70Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 61-70
- Word Bubbles review sessionReview games
Pop the words you just met by matching each one to its meaning. A couple of rounds and the batch is yours.
The ending tells you: a consonant is masculine (стол), -а and -я are feminine (книга), -о and -е neuter (окно). And мой, моя, моё follow it.
A soft sign can be either gender, so learn the word with it. Папа and дядя are men, so masculine. And a book is она: Russian has no it.
Masculine and feminine take -ы or -и, neuter takes -а or -я. And Russian never writes ы after г, к or х: книги, not книгы.
- Words 71-80Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 71-80
- Cases: why я becomes меняGrammar
Russian marks a noun's job with its ending, the way English turns I into me. Start with the pronouns; the tables come later.
- Words 81-90Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 81-90
- Word Bubbles review sessionReview games
Pop the words you just met by matching each one to its meaning. A couple of rounds and the batch is yours.
- Не and нет: saying noGrammar
Не goes in front of whatever it denies, with no do to bolt on: Я не знаю. Нет is the answer no, and it also means there is no.
Никто, ничего and никогда bring a second не with them: Никто не знает, nobody not knows. In Russian that is the only correct way to say it.
- Words 91-100Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 91-100
- Read: Привет или пока?Graded-reader story
Gosha says hi when he should say bye, and he has a reason. Every word in it comes from this chapter.
- The number house: от нуля до девятиVocabulary
10 words · Zero to nine in one sitting. Frequency hands you один in the first hundred words and leaves девять outside the first thousand. Watch один: it changes with the noun, одна мама but один день.
- Word Bubbles review sessionReview games
Pop the words you just met by matching each one to its meaning. A couple of rounds and the batch is yours.
- Number house two: the teensVocabulary
10 words · Десять to девятнадцать. Every teen is a unit plus -надцать, give or take a letter: пять to девять drop their soft sign (пятнадцать), два becomes две- in двенадцать. The stress lands on -на́дцать, except in оди́ннадцать and четы́рнадцать.
- Word Bubbles review sessionReview games
Pop the words you just met by matching each one to its meaning. A couple of rounds and the batch is yours.
- Number house three: the tens and стоVocabulary
9 words · Двадцать to девяносто, then сто. Most tens are built from parts you know; сорок and девяносто are the two that are not, and they are the two people get wrong.
- Word Bubbles review sessionReview games
Pop the words you just met by matching each one to its meaning. A couple of rounds and the batch is yours.
- И, но, аThemed review
The connectives and particles that hold Russian sentences together, including the two words for but that English cannot tell apart.
- Пока, Гоша!Conversation
Nine lines with Гоша, who answers every goodbye with a hello.
- Arcade reviewReview games
Replay this chapter's words as games - a different kind of repetition, and it counts.
Word printables
Per-word sheets128 words · a worksheet, infographic and listicle each
